An Autobiography
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: October 1, 1994
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140438116
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Biography & Autobiography / General; English; Literature: Classics
First sentence: IN 'writing these pages, which, for the want of a better name, I shall be fain to call the autobiography of so insignificant a person as myself, it will not be so much my intention to speak of the little details of my private life, as of what I, and perhaps others round me, have done in literature; of my failures and successes such as they have been, and their cause; and of the opening which a literary career offers to men and women for the earning of their bread.